Warm Winters, Early Pollen: Three Teas For Allergy Season
It’s been a disturbingly warm and dry winter in much of the American West. This year’s starkly strange season portends poorly for wildfires—on the last day in February, in fact, a wildfire broke out near Boulder’s iconic Chautauqua Park. Normally, snow prevents wildfires in winter. The weak winter also floods farmers with dread: If the water runs out this summer, they lose at least part of their livelihoods.
The warmth, too, could ripen an earlier allergy season than normal. Plants don’t strictly follow a calendar—temperatures contribute toward when, for example, they begin broadcasting pollen.
Yet even as environments begin reaching for spring, you’ll probably want to be outside. The next few months tend to offer pleasing conditions—not yet an oven, landscapes turning green, flowers speckling everything.
Gold-hued dust could begin collecting on your car windshield today, or in a few weeks. Either way, now is a good time to begin pre-gaming for the sneezing season. Pro tip: Invite delicious tea to help fortify your body for the inflammatory onslaught.
Prepare thyself!
Allergy Season Teas: Organic Allergy Blend
You sneezed, and we listened! Given the widespread degree to which people suffer from seasonal allergies, we devised our own custom blend to address those dreaded symptoms. Tea can’t get rid of allergies. But it can at least mitigate some of the worst effects.
This power-packed blend combines turmeric, nettle, ginger, elder flower, tulsi and rosemary—all leveraged by herbalists to help treat allergy symptoms. In addition to our Allergy Blend’s therapeutic benefits it also delivers grand flavors—the combination is rich, savory, slightly spicy and sweet.
Allergy Season Teas: Organic Tulsi Twist
In the context of seasonal allergies, inflammation ranks as a huge health issue. Inflammation serves as the foundation of of that eye-reddening and -rubbing, nose blowing, throat clearing and sneezing. Not only can it be annoying, if not debilitating—inflammation also impacts the rest of the body, which devotes outsized energies toward managing and cleaning up after the arrival of pollen into bodies.
According to Ayurvedic medicine, the herb tulsi, also known as holy basil, ranks as a inflammation-fighting force. Ayurvedic practitioners claim it also invigorates the mind and relieves fatigue without caffeine, and supports kidney and liver health.
This blend doesn’t call it quits with the tulsi, however, We also add other allergy-season helpers to the mix, including ginger, lemon peel, strawberry leaf, marshmallow root and lavender. These contributors also bring bright flavor to our Tulsi Twist.
Allergy Season Teas: Chrysanthemum Green
Inflammation again? You bet! Managing inflammation ranks as essential for massaging the worst effects of seasonal allergies. That’s one reason we offer our Chrysanthemum green tea as an allergy-season hero. The flower, revered in traditional Chinese medicine, gets touted as an inflammation fighter. But chrysanthemum also supports lung health—important for those who get slammed by pollen sensitivities.
Another component of this blend—sencha, the style of green tea most widely sipped in Japan—also comes to the rescue. Sencha, a traditional Camellia sinensis, contains quite a bit of potent EGCG. The antioxidant helps alleviate oxidative stress and inflammation, both of which are linked to various chronic conditions including heart disease, diabetes and even certain cancers. The antioxidant helps to bolster cells damaged by free radicals, and as an inflammation fighter it also helps soften allergy season’s worst symptoms.
